Form-adjusting device.



UNITED STATES Parana? OFFICE.

nRAsrus E. WINKLEY, 0F L'YNN, MAssA'cHUsErrs. AssieNoR r0 UNITED snon MACHINERY COMPANY, or PAIERSON, NEW messy, A CORPORATION or NEW .mnsnv.

FORM-ADJUSTING DEVICE. 1

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application fi1edJune4,1904. SerialNo. 211,117.

To all whom, it may} concern:

Be it known that I, ERASTUS E. WINKLEY,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Lynn, in the county of Essex and. State of Massachusetts, have invented-certain new and useful Improvements in Form-Adjusting Devices; and l do hereby declare the follow- The object of the rescnt invention. is. to

provide an improve and simpiified means by which a form can be securely but remov ably locked in position on a form carrier and by which the iornrcan be adjusted to bring invention.

it into a position to properly cooperate with the form, shoe support or mold of a sole pressing machine in which the form is used.

To the above ends the present invention consists in the devices, combinations and arrangc'mcnt of parts hereinafter described and claimed, the advantages of which will be obvious to those skilled in the art from the following description.

The invention will be clearly understood from the accompanying drawing in which is illustrated the preferred embodiment of' the Referring to the drawing, Figure 1' is a lan view of a form, the form carrier and'the lock or cross-head upon which the form carrier is mounted, illustrating the preferred embodiment aof the means constituting the present invention for locking the form u on the carrier and for adjusting the form; Big. 2 is a view in side elevation. of the parts illustrated in Fig., 1; Fig. 3 is a view in end elevation looking irom the right of Figs. 1 and 2, and Fig. 4 is a plan view of the form and the plate secured thereto removed from the carrier.

1 indicates a block or cross-head of a solo pressing mac line which is adapted to be seecured 'in the rame of the machine in a manner well known to those skilled in the art. U )on the lower end of the block 1 is mounted a lorm carrier 2, the construction illustrated by which the carrier is supported on the block being one which has heretofore been used in sole pressing machines, and comprisingcooperating scgmcntalguide flanges and Patented Aug. 10, 1909.

grooves upon the block and carrier allowinda j slight longitudinal tipplng movement of t 3 indicates the arm upon the upper sure.

face of which is secured a plate 4, dove-tail in cross-section, which is adapted to be 96- ceived a supporting gnidcway formed by plates 5 secured upon the lower surfa'ceof the ca Tier 2. v In arrying out the-present invention the plate 4 is adjustablysecured to the form- 3 by means of screws 6 passing through-slots in the late and screwing into. the form. "Atits'" or ward end the plate is provided with arr-ap erture 7 which when the form is in position on the carrier co aots 'Witha locking pin 8' mounted to move vertically in a bearingin the front end of the carrier. This locking.

in is provided at its up er end with *"a" .murled headby means of w ich'the pin can be raisedor depressed by the operator." A

friction. spring 9 secured to the pin and ar-;

ranged to bear against the side of thehcaring for the pin serves to hold the pin imeithcr its raised or lowered position; The .is placed on or removed from the carrier by sliding it endwi se, the plate 4 slid-in the guideway formedby the plates 5. The lock- 1n wit 7 holds the form rigidly in osition 111; when raised out of engagement t erewith allows the form' to be readil adjusting the plate 4 upon t e form 3 the-po sition of the form with relation to the carrier is changed so that by this means the forincan be' adjusted to bring it into the desired position with relation to the form, shoe support or mold, with which the form is to 006 crate. This adjustment is made before the orm is placed on the carrier and when once made does not require to be changed, as the ad justment is not affected by the removal of the form from the carrier." -Preferably the plate 4- extends beyond the rear end of the orm and is provided with a downwardl extending pr0 ection in which is adjustab y sepin 8 when in engagementwith the egg-1rremoved. By

.trated in the drawing and above described l but that the invention may be otherwise enii on bodied.

with means arranged to cooperate with said locking device.

2. The combination with a form, for use in a sole pressing machine provided with a form carrier and having a locking in for locking the form on the carrier, of a plate adjustably secured to the form and provided with an aperture to cooperate with said locking pin.

3. The combination with the form of a sole pressing machine, of a plate adjustably Secured to the form provided with an ad justable stop bearing against one end of the form, and with means arranged to cooperate with a locking device upon the form carrier of the machine, to lock the form on the carrier, substantially as described.

4. A sole pressing machine, having, in combination, a form, a plate adjustably secured to the form, a form carrier, and a locking pin mounted in the carrier arranged to engage the plate and removably secure the form in position on the carrier, substantially as described.

5. A sole pressing machine, having, combination, a form, a plate adjustably so cured to the form, a form carrier, and a looking device mounted. in the carrier l'or re|nov ably securing the plate on the carrier, substantially as described.

6 A solo pressing machine, having, in

combination, a form, a plate adustnbly secured to the form provided with an adjust-- able stop bearing against one end ol the form, a form carrier, and a locking device mounted in the carrier arranged to engage the plate and romovably secure the l'orm in position the carrier, substantiall us described.

7. A sole pressing machine, having, in combination, a form, a plate on the form, a form carrier and a locking; device mounted in the carrier arranged to directly engrave. the

r plate and removably secure the plate upon the carrier, said locking device and p ate having provision lor permitting an ad ustment of the form with relation to the carrier,.

Substantially as described.

8. The combination with a form, for use in a sole pressing machine )rovided with a form carrier and having a Inciting device for locking the form on the carrier, ot a plate ad' jnstably secured to the form adapted for a sliding engagement with said l'orm carrier and provided with means arranged to eooperate with said locking device to removably secure the form in position on said carrier, substantially as described. I

S). A sole pressing machine having, in combination, a form, a form carrier, a plate adjustably secured to the form and adapted to have a sliding engagement with the carrier, and a locking device mounted in the carrier and arranged to engage the plate to removably secure the term in position on the carrier, substantially as described.

it). A sole pressing machine, having, in combination, a, form, a form carrier, a plate secured to the form and adapted to have a sliding engagement with the carrier, and a locking pin mounted in the carrier arranged to engage the plate and removably secure the form in position on the carrier, said locking device and plate having provision 'lor permittingr an mljnstmcnt ol' the term with relation to the carrier.

in testimony whereof I allix my stqmtture,

-1-ll )resencc of two Witnesses. 

